Exclusive: First images of how Manchester City's Etihad Campus could look

This is how Manchester City’s Etihad Campus could look under plans to build a host of community facilities on the site. A sixth-form college, sports science institute and leisure centre all form part of the proposals. They are being built thanks to massive investment by the football club in the area around its stadium.

This is how Manchester City’s Etihad Campus could look under plans to build a host of community facilities on the site.

A sixth-form college, sports science institute and leisure centre all form part of the proposals. They are being built by the council thanks to massive investment by the football club in the area around its stadium.

The facilities for residents will go up alongside a new football academy and training complex for the Blues.

The new images are part of the latest ‘masterplan’ for the area, which is being redeveloped by Manchester council and regeneration company New East Manchester in partnership with the football club.

Proposals for ‘The Beswick Project’, which is expcetd to create around 200 jobs, include creating a pedestrianised walkway across Alan Turing Way and pedestrianising part of Grey Mare Lane. The area will ultimately be used by up to 2,500 residents, visitors, footballers and club officials a day.

The new buildings will be created around a tree-lined circle, dubbed ‘The Circus’, spanning 16 acres across both sides of Alan Turing Way.

To the east, Connell College – a 600-place sixth form for local pupils and academy players – and the Manchester Institute of Sports Science and Sports Medicine will be built on land at the corner of the club’s academy site. To the west there will be shops and a leisure centre – including a swimming pool funded by the football club as well as a dance studio, rugby union pitch and community sports space.

Those facilities will be built alongside East Manchester Academy, St Bridgid’s RC primary school and Beswick Library.

Grey Mare Lane market will be pulled down to make way for the leisure centre and stallholders helped to find pitches elsewhere.

A new House of Sport, containing offices for sports’ governing bodies, will be built on the refurbished site of Grey Mare Lane police station.

The developments, together with the football academy, will bring more than 550 jobs to the area.

Shops currently near East Manchester Academy will be relocated to the new units on Alan Turing Way. A car park will be built in their place.

Around 200 yards of Grey Mare Lane, between Bell Crescent and the school, will be pedestrianised to avoid rat-runs.

Bus stops will be created on Alan Turing Way and a new left turn installed opposite City’s training ground as part of efforts to smooth traffic flow.

Eddie Smith, chief executive of New East Manchester, said: "We wanted to bring together all these assets into one location and create a real focal point for east Manchester. This will be the community front door to the training ground."

Mr Smith said the views of residents would be ‘critical’ to the final look and cost of the scheme. Funding discussions are taking place with Sport England. The council and Manchester City have been building their plans for the area – one of the most deprived in Britain– since March 2010.

The latest proposals will go before Manchester council’s executive next week. If endorsed, they will then go to public consultation with a view to submitting planning applications by the end of the year and getting the go-ahead for work to begin early in 2013.

Connell College – named after the Blues’ founding family – will open as a free school in September 2014. The football academy plans to launch in the 2014/15 season. The wider site and community facilities are earmarked for completion by early 2015.

Jim Battle, deputy leader of Manchester council, said: "These are exciting proposals from which the community will see real benefits. We look forward to sharing the details with residents and other interested parties."